The Mountain Working World Cup, Skyrunner World Sequence, and World Path Majors all featured on the weekend.
For extra racing this week, comply with alongside for our incoming recaps of TDS, OCC, and CCC forward of our in-depth UTMB stay protection beginning on Friday.
Mountain Working World Cup – Ljubljana, Slovenia
After 13 races on three continents over the course of 4 months, the World Mountain Working Affiliation wrapped up its 2025 Mountain Working World Cup with two races at completely different venues on back-to-back days.
Velika Planina Uphill Race
Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) struck first, however Richard Omaya Atuya (Kenya) dominated late. Omaya Atuya received the 8.5-kilometer climb and its 1,280 meters of achieve in 50:21. Kiprotich was second in 51:14, and final week’s Sierre-Zinal winner Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) was third in 52:18. Kenyan runners took 4 of the highest 5 end spots.
Richard Omaya Atuya , the 2025 Velika Planina Uphiil Race males’s champion. Photograph: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
World Cup girls’s chief Scout Adkin (U.Okay.) was a late scratch from the occasion, and Susanna Saapunki (Finland) went out onerous and dominated in 61:43. She was almost three minutes up on each different lady. Benedetta Broggi (Italy) edged Kirsty Dickson (U.Okay.) by a single second for the runner-up spot. Broggi ran 64:32 to Dickson’s 64:33.
Andrea Mayr (Austria) was fourth in 65:03 and pre-race shared that she wouldn’t defend her win on the 2023 World Mountain Working Championships Uphill at subsequent month’s occasion in Spain.
Susanna Saapunki, the 2025 Velika Planina Uphill Race girls’s champion. Photograph: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Šmarna Gora
The subsequent day 10k went up 705 meters and down 350 meters for a internet uphill course, however this terrain was extra in favor to Kiriago. Kiprotich, Kiriago, and Omaya Atuya broke away early however Kiriago moved to the lead late and set a brand new course report in 40:47. He was 43 seconds higher than Omaya Atuya’s year-old former course greatest. Kirago’s performances over the 2 days of racing allowed him to maneuver forward in and win this 12 months’s World Cup.
Kiprotich was second in 40:55 and the day prior’s uphill winner Omaya Atuya was third in 41:07. Kenyan runners took the primary 5 end spots.
World Cup general girls’s winner Scout Adkin was once more out with harm, and Gloria Chebet (Kenya) led the entire girls’s race and towards a 49:55 successful time. Valentine Rutto (Kenya) edged Courtney Coppinger (U.S.) for third, 51:02 to 51:09, and uphill legend Mayr doubled again for fourth in 51:49.
Full outcomes (when accessible).
Philemon Kiriago, the boys’s champion of the 2025 Mountain Working World Cup finale in Šmarna Gora. Photograph: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Gloria Chebet, the ladies’s champion of the 2025 Mountain Working World Cup finale in Šmarna Gora. Photograph: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Matterhorn Ultraks Excessive – Zermatt, Switzerland
The expert-level race was the 12 months’s sixteenth Skyrunner World Sequence contest, and it was run on a 26k course with 3,066 meters of climbing. That’s 16 miles and with 10,060 ft of up. It was all in opposition to the backdrop of the Matterhorn and had a number of glacier crossings heading in the right direction.
Each William Boffelli (Italy) and Anastasia Rubtsova (Russia) received the race for the third time, and neither was particularly challenged.
Frederic Tranchand (France) led the opening climb, however after that, Boffelli took over within the males’s race. He received in 3:25, a full 5 minutes higher than second-place Manuel Merillas (Spain). Lucien Mermillion (France) was a shock third in 3:31, and early chief Tranchand slid again to fourth in 3:33.
Rubtsova led from the primary climb and completed first in 4:14, almost 10 minutes forward of the second-place lady. It was a better race for second, and Maria Christen (Switzerland) edged Lucille Germain (France) by 22 seconds. Each completed in 4:23.
William Boffelli, the 2025 Matterhorn Ultraks Excessive males’s champion. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence
Anastasia Rubtsova, the 2025 Matterhorn Ultraks Excessive girls’s champion. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence
Grand Raid des Pyrénées – Vielle-Aure, France
The five-day occasion hosted almost 8,000 runners on the French facet of the Pyrénées mountain vary. Of the eight occasions held over the weekend, the Extremely Tour 160k was a part of the World Path Majors sequence, and the Tour du Neovielle was a part of the World Path Majors Quick Sequence. High finishers within the two occasions had been almost all from the host nation.
Extremely Tour 160k
Solely a 3rd place within the girls’s race stopped a French sweep of the lengthy course podiums.
Gwendal Moysan, Baptiste Hagnere, and Fabrice Arene, all of France, had been the highest males in 21:49, 23:27, and 24:30 within the 100-mile race.
For the ladies, French runners Jocelyne Pauly and Juliette Archambeau ran first and second in 27:40 and 28:01, and Wen-Fei Xie (China) was third in 29:53.
Gwendal Moysan wins the 2025 Grand Raid des Pyrénées Extremely Tour 160k. Photograph: Linka Manufacturing/Grand Raid des Pyrénées/World Path Majors
Jocelyne Pauly wins the 2025 Grand Raid des Pyrénéees Extremely Tour 160k. Photograph: Linka Manufacturing/Grand Raid des Pyrénées/World Path Majors
Tour du Neovielle
The 43k race was a part of the Quick Sequence division of the World Path Majors and topped French runners Clément Lalba and Amaia Bouniol as champs in 3:46 and 5:05.
Extra Races and Run
L’echappée Belle – Allevard, France
The 96k race had Arthur Joyeux-Bouillon (France) and Eliot Retulli (France) in a first-place tie at 13:47, and Lorna Bonnel (France) in entrance of the ladies’s race in 17:00. Nicolas Menard (France) and Maryline Nakache (France) received the 63k distance in 8:08 and 9:40. Full outcomes.
Moose Mountain 50k – Calgary, Alberta
Canadians Thomas Jefferson led the boys’s race in 4:46, and Heather Henry received the ladies’s race, ending in 5:19. Full outcomes.
Thomas Jefferson wins the 2025 Moose Mountain 50k. Photograph: Harsh Gulati
Heather Henry, the 2025 Moose Mountain 50k girls’s champion. Photograph: Harsh Gulati
Xterra Costa Rica – Las Catalinas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
The 2-lap 30k run was a part of the Xterra Path Run World Sequence. Race winners Gabriel Quiros and Paola Herrera ran 2:43 and three:06. Full outcomes.
Cirque Sequence – Alta, Utah
This one went 7.1 miles with 2,545 ft of climbing. Mason Coppi has dominated the Cirque Sequence for a lot of the final two years, and that was the case right here too. Coppi received in 60:36, means up on everybody else. Anthony Williams and Griffin Briley had been second and third in 63:55 and 65:02. Coppi’s 2025 U.S. Mountain Working Staff comrade Cam Smith was again in fourth at 66:06. Alexa Aragon took the ladies’s crown in 74:39. Annie Dube and Janelle Lincks conquered the mountain subsequent in 76:45 and 77:33. Each winners took residence $1,000. Full outcomes.
Westminster Night time Path 50k – Westminster, Colorado
Race winners Shad Mika and Maude Ariosa completed the 50k at Standley Lake in 4:05 and 4:36. Full outcomes.
The 2025 Westminster Night time Path 50k males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Gryphon Ketterling, 1. Shad Mika, and three. Jared Thigpen. Photograph courtesy of the race.
The ladies’s podium for the 2025 Westminster Night time Path 50k (left to proper): 2. Alissa Rausch, 1. Maude Ariosa, and three. Sara Gardhouse. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Staunton Rocks Path Marathon – Conifer, Colorado
Staunton State Park was within the information earlier within the week for a park ranger stabbing hoax, however the weekend gave approach to Gnar Runners path marathon and half-marathon races contained in the state park. Tripp Hipple and Stephanie Schauder received the marathon in 3:38 and 4:48, and Dylan Dille and Sara Haefele had been greatest within the half marathon in 1:52 and a couple of:08. Full outcomes.
Telluride Mountain Run – Telluride, Colorado
The 40-mile race had Adam Loomis and Anna Ellis as its champs in 7:49 and 10:35, and Whit Blair edged Helen Mino Faukner for the general 24-mile win in 4:54. Mino Faukner was the ladies’s champ in 4:57. Full outcomes.
Midwest States 100 Mile – Westboro, Wisconsin
Tim Adamski received the boys’s race in 22:56, and Sarah Krebs was the highest lady in 31:58. Full outcomes.
Tim Adamski, winner of the 2025 Midwest States 100 Mile. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Sarah Krebs on her approach to successful the 2025 Midwest States 100 Mile. Photograph courtesy of the race.
ScoCo50 – Lengthy Grove, Iowa
Phil Younger topped the boys’s 50k in 3:43, and Kasey Froeschle received the ladies’s race in 4:52. Froeschle additionally received the 50k occasion in 2022 and 2024. Full outcomes.
Habanero Hundred – Cat Spring, Texas
The most well liked race in Texas had German Garcia and Alyssa McClellan run 20:16 and 22:36 for the 100-mile distance. It was Garcia’s sixth end on the occasion. Full outcomes.
Continental Divide Path Run 50k – Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Race native Michael Mitchell received in 4:18, and Kristina Mascarenas clipped 55 seconds from a seven-year-old Courtney Dauwalter course report whereas successful the ladies’s race in 4:36. Full outcomes.
Michael Mitchell on his approach to successful the 2025 Continental Divide Path Run 50k. Photograph: Jordan Chappell
Kristina Mascarenas, the ladies’s champion of the 2025 Continental Divide Path Run 50k. Photograph: Jordan Chappell
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